The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A GRANDDAUGHTER of Charles Dickens does
holIrishinp business with type-writer.

| mans, that they will adopt volapuk in cores
| ponding with English manufacturers.
| YOUNG WOMAN of culture in London has set
the fashion of wearing black Portia gown lined
with crimson TO the theaters and has gained sew
| era followers She is now trying to lead OIL with
a studded shirt front and white eraNaI AzAA
A MAN who is said to look almost exactly as
Mozart did is making money in London by ex-
| hibiting himself at fashionable parties ana
musical entertainments. he also appears ,, IN
| tableaux of the great musicians life. Inc
| man charges $50 an evening,
JUDGE HORSEPOWER on the California bench
| recently sentenced man who had betrayed
another's wife with the remark that IF the
| spirit of chivalry were not dead in California
| you would have been called to account long ago
| before another and higher tribunal.
THE relative strength of parties in the Ger
man Reichstag, which differs very little from
what it was at the beginning of last session, Isl:
| Conservatives, including Imperialists and Free
| Conservatives III: ClericalS or Centre, lOl !
Poles, 10: National Liberals, go; Liberalists,
ProgressistS, or Radicals, 81; Social Democrats,
| II; Independents including the Aisace-l4orrain-
| erS -; total, 397
| A LADY in San Francisco had three canarles
so tame that they Jew about the house at VIII.
| One sickened and died suddenly. The dead
| body was taken from the cage and laid on a
| table and the other two few to 1t and examined
it very carefully Then they went back to their
cages, and for over thirty days neither OF them
| uttered note. After that period OF mourning
was over they piped up and sang as of old
PREACHER in one of the towns on the Mar
quette range concluded not long ago that he had
had enough of the place and would get up and
get, although bis congregation did not want him
to. So the people got up $500 donation party,
and when he called for the money informed him
he could have il when it was earned, at the
Oap ,pti oNa Gxip the nripn sermon he was
considered worth The minister danced and
talked until he was red in the face, but his task
masters were inexorable, and be is still preach
ing for them.
SENATOR PALMER, Of Michigan, has sent an &C
credited agent to Europe to purchase number
of choice Percheron stations and mares. Then
his agent will proceed to Arabia and secure five
of the best Arabian stations that can be bought.
Brought to this country the Arabs and Perche-
rons will be bred together and the produce bred
again. BY long and intelligent in-breedlng
Senator Palmer hopes to create a new type of
horse, or, failing in that, to improve the old
tyne by crossing the Arab horse upon the Per
cheron mares and vice versa.
SrEvESsoN's BALLAD, ''Ticonderoga," in the
December ScribRer, has led to a newspaper con
troversy in England Lord Archibald Campbell
writes that the two personageS in the first scene
of the poem we're not Stewart and Cameron,
but Campbell of Inverawe and a Macaniven.
Nj H.
first told the story to Mr. Stevenson states that
he got the legend from Mr.. Cameron of Barcal-
II dine. a lineal descendant of the Cameron of the
ballad, and the owner of the glet where the
murder isbelieved to have taken place.
A TIDY housekeeper of Lisbon, Me-, was much
troubled by certain window-pane in her par
lor 20 what she could, she couldn't get it
clean. She tried acids, alcohol, and window
rubbers to no purpose. Her husband laughed
at her and said he could clean that glass. He
tried. 1t remained just as dingy as before.
Then the hOusekeeper called in a glazier and
told him TO take out the offending glass. He
started to do so and found that somehow or
other two panes of glass had been set in that
sash, and the inside of each pane was dusty. Of
course the dust couldn't be reached by wash
ing. II was very simple solution of what be-
gan to seem almost mystery.
THE same young woman who swindled Cen
trail New York with the bird protection scheme
has operated considerably in Maine Some of
the richest and most influential citizens of Lew
iston not only signed her papers promising to
use their influence TO protect song birds, but
also entertained her at their homes and gave
her money to help carry on the work. Sudden
ly the pretty widow--she was a widow there
was called away by telegram announcing the
death of her brother, and few days afterward
a man appeared with 1880 worth of promis-
sorry notes, which it appeared these citizens had
signed when they thought they were pledging
themselves not to kill the pretty birds.
THE people of Sonoma have a new way of
catching fish. They go down to the embark
adero at high tide and get into the creek. aud
by beating the water with long sticks and max
ing terrible noise they scare the fish back and
keep them back till the tide runs out: then the
fish are left IN the holes and the men an boys
attack them with spears, pitchforks, and clubs
until they obtain all they want. friend of
ours caught a fine lot of carp there the other
day. some Of them weighing as much as three
pounds each These carp escaped from Pope S
fish ponl, near Glen Ellen, some years ago and
have multiplied wonderfully. They now seem
to enjoy the salt water better than the fresh
AT a recent gathering of reporters, detectiv
and politicians, in Columbus, o., Detective John
T. Norris made known a peculiar theory He is
noted for his quick detection of rascals. and
holds that an unreliable man has low set ears
line drawn straight back from the eye will
pass above the ear. This is the test Try it
and see If you are honest Pictures tell it best
If the line cuts through the ear the chances are
IN favor OF your reputation. There are excep-
tons to the rule, and indeed many eminent men
have Just such ears. The idea is not so much
that persons with such ears are dishonest but
rather that they are unreliable and fickle-not
TO be depended upon when wanted. Watch the
ears of the men you know, and see il the theory
holds
MAI THAxTER, of Portland, Me-, is one of the
few veterans who know that Virginia was the
only Confederate State that sent twelve cavalry
regiments into the war He got his information
this way: He went out with his regiment from
WaTenton, Va, on a raid. When he returned
at night he rode to the place whence he had set
out and came upon a cavalry camp asleep
What regiment is this?'' he shouted 1.-The
Tw lfth" was the answer '1he Twelfth
what!H he asked Twelfth Virginia, YOU -
foo9 was the answer from one who was sur
prised that any one shouldn't know that there
was but one Twelfth Cavalry Regiment in the
service, Maj. Thaxter didn't wait for further
information. but got away He afterward
searned that the Union troops had fallen back.
ald the Confederates taken their place.
THERE recently died in RockIand, Me-. an
Italian musician, +. A. D. Singh, whose life was
out of the ordinary. He was when a boy an
prenticed to an image peddler of Lucca. and
with him crossed Europe on foot with load of
images on his heai On reaching England be
ran away from his master and enlisted In the
English army and was sent to Canada While
the regiment was az Quebec the band PLAYED n
selection, widely advertised as the COMPOSITION
of the bandmaster Young Singh recognized
it as old Italian melody. That evening at
the barracks he whistled the air until he was
interrupted by the bandmaster, who asked
where he heard that. The Italian was onick.
witted Heard the band play il" be said The
leader was pleased and Singhi was put into the
band. He afterward deserted and went IN
Maine, where, after earning precarious living
by shoemaking and barbering he at last goi
solidly established as a musician He was horn
a Roman Catholic became Methodist. and
died Swedenborgian.
THE Chicago Ners offered a prize for the best
story written by pupil In the Chicago public
schools, and as result was deluged with all
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